UPHESC Assistant Professor Physical Education 2025 PYQs

Concept: Demonstration is the key teaching method in physical education – pupils imitate what they see.

1. A is true: the PE teacher must be highly skilled in activities taught.
2. R is true: correct demonstration of the skill is essential for teaching it.
3. He must be skilled precisely because he has to demonstrate correctly – R explains A.

Short trick: Show it right → must be skilled.

Concept: Harry Crowe Buck (YMCA) founded the YMCA College of Physical Education, Madras (1920) and shaped modern physical education in India.

1. He framed courses, rules of Indian games and teacher training – called the father of modern physical education in India.
2. J. B. Nash and Hagman were American educationists; J. D. Butler was an American philosopher of education.

Short trick: Buck → YMCA Madras 1920 → modern Indian PE.

Concept: Playing courts and fields are laid with their long axis North–South so that the rising and setting sun (east–west) does not shine into players’ eyes.

1. The same rule is followed for courts in indoor complexes, where sunlight enters through east/west windows and ventilators.
2. East–West is avoided (glare); kho-kho is the commonly quoted exception outdoors.

Short trick: Sun moves E→W, so play N–S.

Concept: Electrolytes and trace minerals have specific roles.

1. Potassium – nerve impulse and muscle contraction (heart rhythm) → II.
2. Sodium – fluid and blood volume balance, keeps blood cells in proper osmotic state → III.
3. Fluoride – hardens tooth enamel → IV; Chloride – forms HCl of gastric juice, aids digestion → I.
4. Only option (C) has a-II, c-IV, d-I together.

Short trick: Chloride → HCl → stomach; Fluoride → toothpaste.

Concept: Folic acid (vitamin B9) is needed for DNA synthesis and formation of red blood cells.

1. Deficiency → megaloblastic anaemia, common in women and children.
2. In pregnancy, deficiency causes neural-tube birth defects (spina bifida) – hence folic-acid supplements.
3. Thiamin → beriberi, Niacin → pellagra, Biotin → dermatitis.

Short trick: Folate for Fetus and blood (RBC).

Concept: The wellness movement (Halbert Dunn, 1960s–70s) shifted focus from curing illness to promoting health and preventing disease through lifestyle.

1. Wellness = active process of making choices toward a healthy, fulfilling life.
2. Its programmes target healthy lifestyle, risk-factor reduction and preventive health care.
3. Personality, skill and fitness are components, but the movement’s stated aim is health promotion and disease prevention.

Short trick: Wellness = Prevent + Promote.

Concept: β-carotene is provitamin A; the intestine and liver split it into retinol (vitamin A).

1. Rich sources: carrots, papaya, mango, green leafy vegetables.
2. Vitamin D is formed from 7-dehydrocholesterol in skin by sunlight; B and C are not made from carotene.

Short trick: Carrot → Carotene → vitamin A (eyes).

Concept: Cirrhosis = scarring (fibrosis) of liver replacing healthy tissue.

1. Chronic heavy alcohol use is the leading cause, along with hepatitis B and C.
2. Smoking mainly harms lungs/heart, solar radiation affects skin, cholesterol affects arteries.

Short trick: Alcohol → liver; smoking → lungs.

Concept: Malnutrition is the general condition of inadequate nutrients – due to poor intake (starvation) or poor absorption/utilisation.

1. Marasmus = severe deficiency of calories and protein (wasting) – one form of malnutrition.
2. Kwashiorkor = protein deficiency with oedema – another specific form.
3. The definition given is the broad term ‘malnutrition’.

Short trick: Broad term → Malnutrition; specific diseases → marasmus, kwashiorkor.

Concept: Each vitamin has a chemical name.

1. Vitamin E = tocopherol → IV; Vitamin B₂ = riboflavin → III.
2. Vitamin D₂ = (ergo)calciferol → II; Vitamin C = ascorbic acid → I.
3. Code: a-IV, b-III, c-II, d-I.

Short trick: ‘Toco’ = childbirth (E fertility), ‘Calci’ = D bones, ‘Ascorbic’ = anti-scurvy C.

Concept: In periodization, the competition period aims to attain and maintain top (peak) form for important competitions.

1. A is true – that is the defined aim of the competition period.
2. R is false – top form is a temporary state; it can be held only for a limited time (a few weeks) and then declines, so a transition period follows.

Short trick: Peak is a peak – it cannot last long.

Concept: Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, ‘father of German gymnastics (Turnen)’, opened the first open-air Turnplatz at Hasenheide, Berlin in 1811.

1. There gymnasts trained with apparatus and resistance/weight exercises for strength – regarded as the start of systematic weight training for gymnasts in Germany.
2. 1816 is the year of Jahn’s book Die Deutsche Turnkunst, not the start of training.

Short trick: Jahn → Hasenheide → 1811.

Concept: Direct (immediate) preparation is the final phase before the main competition, aimed at the season’s best performance in that competition.

1. A is true – this is the stated aim (Hardayal Singh).
2. Build-up competitions are themselves tools of direct preparation; results in them are not the target.
3. R reverses this, claiming direct preparation is meant to perform well in practice matches – not correct.

Short trick: Build-up matches serve the main event, not the other way round.

Concept: Dr. Ernst van Aaken (Waldniel, Germany), physician and athletics coach, advocated long, slow continuous running (the ‘Waldniel endurance method’).

1. Continuous method = long duration, low/moderate intensity work without rest – builds aerobic endurance.
2. Other names given are not associated with this method.

Short trick: Van Aaken → Aerobic, long and slow.

Concept: Kabaddi rules: a team has 7 players on court and up to 5 reserves.

1. A is true – up to five substitutions can be made at a time, during time-out/interval, with the referee’s permission.
2. R is true – a substituted player can come back (re-substitution is allowed).
3. R is a separate rule; it does not explain why five substitutes are allowed.

Short trick: Two true rules, unrelated → (B).

Concept: Progressive overload (DeLorme): the training stress on muscles is increased gradually as they adapt and grow stronger.

1. Without increasing load, adaptation stops (plateau).
2. Volume and intensity are usually NOT raised together sharply – that risks overtraining.
3. It is about load on muscle, not the nervous system or speed training alone.

Short trick: Stronger muscle → slightly heavier load, step by step.

Concept: In the Nelson hand reaction test a falling stick (Nelson reaction timer) is caught; reaction time is computed from the distance it falls, using free-fall $d=\frac{1}{2}g{t}^2\Rightarrow t=\sqrt{2d/g}$ with $g=32$ ft/s².

1. The formula uses distance of a falling stick – a mechanical (not electronic) test.
2. Electronic tests read the time directly from a timer, so no formula is needed.

Short trick: Falling stick + free-fall formula = Nelson.

Concept: Each term belongs to a part of the sports training system (Hardayal Singh).

1. High performance → the final training stage of long-term training (III).
2. Organization of competition → competition system (IV).
3. Screening of children → talent identification (II).
4. Motor solution of a competition task → tactical action (I).

Short trick: Screening = talent hunt; solving a match problem = tactics.

Concept: Empirical (statistical/criterion) validity is established by experience/data – correlating test scores with a criterion.

1. Logical and face validity are judged by reasoning or appearance, not experience.
2. Construct validity checks whether a test measures a theoretical trait.

Short trick: Empirical = Experience/Experiment.

Concept: A constructed test must satisfy the scientific criteria – validity, reliability and objectivity (plus norms, administrative feasibility).

1. Evaluation is the purpose/process for which tests are used, not a criterion of test construction.
2. So ‘evaluation’ is the odd one.

Short trick: Test criteria = V-R-O (Validity, Reliability, Objectivity).